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concatenative · Discuss the concatenative variety of computer languages: Joy, Forth, Postscript

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The best introduction to this subject is at the Joy homepage.

In short, concatenative languages behave in a way which looks imperative (like C or Perl), but can be reasoned about in a functional manner (like ML or Haskell).

These languages are only beginning to be studied, although Forth had a heyday in the 80s, and Postscript is notable for being the most commonly metaprogrammed language in existance (a trait which I believe is not a coincidence).

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Re: SPREAD: another kid on the block
... It does! Do you have anything else written about it? (The applet doesn't work for me.) To any who might be interested, here's the "Concatenative Languages"
Posted - Thu Jun 13, 2013 11:58 pm
William Tanksley, Jr
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Re: positional postfix evaluation
... that's because it's a joy program, not a spread program ... spread programs are pretty much free of form, so they resist static compilation. optimisation
Posted - Tue May 28, 2013 5:50 am
Robbert van Dalen
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Re: positional postfix evaluation
... Only when you're writing expressions that compute to values. Most of the time, however, you're defining functions and your technique will be of no use. For
Posted - Mon May 27, 2013 11:58 pm
John Nowak
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positional postfix evaluation
positional postfix evaluation - please set the font to mono-spaced for better readability - this short post describes a novel (postfix) computational model
Posted - Mon May 27, 2013 7:30 pm
Robbert van Dalen
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SPREAD: another kid on the block
Let me introduce a new (concatenative?) programming language called SPREAD. SPREAD has - what I believe - many properties that might interest you. SPREADs most
Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 9:36 pm
Robbert van Dalen
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